CalorieCents

As promised, I am including our change in wealth in the monthly updates.  There is one major assumption that I’m making in terms of our apartment.  I’m keeping the value of our place at our purchase price though I’m certain the value has increased 35% even in this awful housing market.  Other than that, most of the numbers will be coming off statements.  I’m using Excel to keep track of all the numbers and to make the tracking easier, I’ve used hyperlinks in the cells to direct me to each respective login page.  I’ll probably show how I did that in a future post.

So our wealth increased .91% mostly due to the receipt of our federal tax refund.  We’re still waiting for our state tax refund.  I’ll set a goal of a .4% increase for next month though with Baby Moonimus’ first birthday approaching, I don’t think we’ll get there.

Our credit card balance increased again this month and a big reason is due to timing.  Since I’m collecting information on the first of the month, there will always be a balance for the credit cards.  I’m going to make a big push to see if we can decrease the use of the card just to see if I’m not kidding myself.

As far as my weight and body fat % is concerned, I’m back to where I started.  I don’t know what’s happening to me this year but I got hurt last week because of a cough.  It wasn’t a particularly violent cough but it was strong enough to tweak my back left shoulder.  I went to the doctor and he prescribed me steroids to take for a week.  So I’ll be blasting some home runs at a ballpark near you.

Once I’m off the medication and everything feels tip top, I will yet again slowly establish an exercise routine.  Also, I’m going to weigh myself every month.  I won’t step on a scale until May 1.  I’m thinking that I’m putting too much stress on myself during the weekly weigh ins and the informal daily weigh ins.  We’ll see if this works out better.

The setbacks are getting frustrating.